Chico & Rita

2010

Spain/UK

15

Directed by: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal

Cast: Lenny Mandel, Limara Meneses

Language: Spanish, English

Beautiful Spanish adult animation relating the bolero romance of a young aspiring pianist and fledgling singer who fall in love in 1940s Havana and later meet again as their careers take them across the world from Paris to Hollywood.

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Reviews & features

(15) 93min
This Spanish-made, English-language, feature-length animation joins the ever-growing list of highly unconventional, beautifully realised, adult-oriented cartoons made outside of America that also includes The Illusionist, Waltz with Bashir…

Directors on Cobi, Cuba and backgrounds in music and design

Names
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
Background
Javier Mariscal is a Spanish artist and designer who designed Cobi, the mascot for the Barcelona Olympics. Other iconic designs including the room chair that was used in the second series of…